[Evergreen-general] [External] Re: New Highlighting in Search Results in Staff Catalog

Tue Nov 21 13:56:16 EST 2023

I'm still trying to figure out precisely what causes blue highlighting over yellow because it's a difficult thing to trigger and doesn't seem to happen consistently. Within the conversation for that bug, it's described that yellow is for "records with no copies and that are not transcendent" and blue is for "records with no copies, but that are transcendent." So my question is, what is a transcendent record?

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This change brought back color coding that was in an early version of Evergreen (back in the XUL client). If I remember correctly, blue indicates that there aren't any copies available and it's also not visible in the public OPAC - the discussion here should help:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/1966342

Agreed that it should get some accessibility love - please consider adding a new Launchpad ticket for that if there isn't one already!

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On Fri, Nov 17, 2023 at 2:10 PM Szwagiel, Will via Evergreen-general <evergreen-general at list.evergreen-ils.org<mailto:evergreen-general at list.evergreen-ils.org>> wrote:

Good afternoon,

After upgrading to Evergreen version 3.11.1 this past weekend, we began to notice some additional highlighting in our search results when using the staff catalog (pictured below):

[cid:ii_18beda5bbdd4cff311]

The yellow/orange highlighting seems relatively self-explanatory, as it only appears when your preferred search library owns no copies of a particular item.  The blue highlighting, however, is a bit more elusive and esoteric.

Based on our test searches, the blue highlighting seems to appear when the following three criteria are met (from what we can tell, at any rate):

  1.  There are copies available in the consortium (in this case, CARDINAL)
  2.  There are copies owned by one or more branches of a library system (the library system to which your preferred branch belongs) but none are currently available, and
  3.  There are no copies owned by the branch to which the search is scoped (your preferred branch)

So in the example pictured above, there are two copies currently available in CARDINAL.  The Goldsboro branch of the Wayne County Public Library owns a copy, but it is not currently available.  The Pikeville branch, to which the search is scoped, of the Wayne County Public Library does not own any copies.  Thus the blue highlighting.

However, we have been unable to find any documentation on this anywhere, so I wanted to reach out to all of you to see if anyone might have some concrete information or documentation about this new feature.  Are our parameters for finding a blue highlighted copy listing accurate?  Or is there more at play behind-the-scenes than we are aware of?

Additionally, where in Evergreen does the configuration/s for this live, exactly?  Since the yellow/orange highlighting appears when there are no copies owned by the library to which the search is scoped, we foresee this being a bit of a headache for electronic resources, since the e-resource records will not have any items attached to them for any libraries in the consortium.  We realize there is always the option to check the Exclude Electronic Resources box, but knowing how to turn this highlighting on and off, it that is at all possible, would be very helpful, as it does not currently appear to meet certain accessibility guidelines.

Thank you.

William C. Szwagiel

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